For the first time in the United States, a utility is asking federal regulators for a permit to build a small nuclear reactor ...

1. The research team (NEAL) from the University of South China have made significant progress in nuclear reactor radiation-shielding design. The team has developed a radiation-shielding ...

In part one of this sponsored series, you saw the science behind turning nuclear waste into cancer medication. Here in part two, we will explore and explain what will be the first next-generation ...

China's State Council approved 10 new nuclear reactors on Sunday. This marks the fourth consecutive year China has greenlit at least 10 reactors. China has 30 nuclear reactors under construction ...

Ontario Power Generation picked a boiling water reactor design from GE Vernova for the Darlington New Nuclear Project in Clarington, Ontario. When constructed, each reactor will provide enough ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than uranium—the most common fission fuel. The system also uses molten salt ...

The breakthrough, aimed at optimizing shielding configurations more efficiently, is published in Nuclear Engineering and Design. Micro and small reactors are emerging as compact, safe, and low ...

The price tag is in: $20.9 billion. That’s the estimated cost of the design and building four small, modular reactors (SMRs) at the Darlington nuclear generating station on Lake Ontario east of ...

WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Nuclear waste and radioactive plutonium would be assessed as a fuel for reactors under a draft executive order being considered by the administration of President ...

China has successfully launched the world’s first thorium-based nuclear reactor. This pioneering project, set in the remote Gobi Desert in Wuyi City, Gansu Province, is not just a scientific ...